Srinagar, May 15 -- A day after flights started operating from Srinagar airport, Hajj flights also resumed on Wednesday. The flights were suspended on May 7, owing to cross border tensions.

Officials said that 642 pilgrims left Srinagar for Delhi from where they would travel to Saudi Arabia.

"The pilgrims flew in four flights from Srinagar airport to Delhi from where they boarded two flights to Saudi Arabia," said Shujaat Ahmad Qureshi, executive officer of the J&K Haj Committee.

He said that direct flights from Srinagar to Jeddah could not operate given the recent incidents. "There was no green signal from Centre to the international flights," he said.

The flight operations at the airport were suspended on May 7 when India targeted t...